The top
selling albums during the month are : (1) Dorothy Goes To Town by
Dorothy Shay (the Park Avenue Hillbilly) Columbia) (2) - The Jolson
Album - vol.1 (Decca) (3) - Christmas Carols by Bing Crosby (Decca)
(4) - Allegro by the Original Cast (RCA) (5) - High Button Shoes by
the Original Cast (RCA).

The Cash
Box poll of the top orchestras for the year 1947 was released, and
the results are : (1)- Eddy Howard (2) - Vaughn Monroe (3) Guy
Lombardo (4) - Sammy Kaye.

On Sunday
evenings on the NBC network at 9:30, the new Texaco Star Theater show
features Gordon MacRae, Evelyn Knight, and the orchestra of Victor
Young.

The best
bets of the week on record during mid-January are : "Thoughtless" /
"You Were Meant For Me" - Gordon MacRae with the Carlyle Hall Orch.
(Capitol); "I'll Always Be In Love With You" / "In A Little Bookshop"
by Dinah Shore with Nathan Van Cleaves Orch. (Columbia); "But
Beautiful" / "You Don't Have To Know The Language" by Gary Stevens
with Tex Beneke Orch. (RCA); "But Beautiful" and "Love Is So
Terrible" by Art Lund with Johnny Thompson's Orch. (MGM);
"Pianissimo" and "You're Much Too Dangerous Cherie" by Buddy Clarke
with Dick Jones Orch. (Columbia); "But Beautiful" and "If I Only Had
A Match"by Frank Sinatra (Columbia); "Haunted Heart" and "I'm My Own
Grandma" by Jo Stafford (Capitol); "But Beautiful" and "Now Is The
Hour" by Margaret Whiting with Frank DeVol Orch. (Capitol); and "Mary
Lou" and "Let's Be Sweethearts Again" b y Clyde Burke with Blue
Barron Orch. (MGM).

Arthur
Godfrey's first recording effort "The Too Fat Polka" goes over the
one million mark in sales for Columbia Records. The same label also
has a million seller in "Feudin' And Fightin" by another radio
personality, Dorothy Shay known as The Park Avenue Hillbilly.

New entries
to the best seller lists in mid month are - "Now Is The Hour" by
Gracie Fields (London), "I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover"by Art
Mooney (MGM), "Serenade Of The Bells" by Sammy Kaye (RCA), "These
Things Money Can't Buy" by Buddy Clarke (Columbia), "How Soon"by
Dinah Shore (Columbia),"Serenade Of The Bells" by Vic Damone
(Mercury), and "When A Fellow Needs A Girl" by Frank Sinatra
(Columbia). Two new albums also made the best seller list this week -
The Three Suns (RCA) and The Benny Goodman Sextet (Columbia).

The hit
songs "But Beautiful" and "You Don't Have To Know The Language" come
from the soundtrack of the motion picture "The Road To Rio" starring
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Also from the same picture are the songs
"Experience" recorded by Bing with Nan Wynne (Decca) and
"Apalachicola, Fla." by Bing and the Andrews Sisters (Decca).

A new
record from the Damon Record label in Kansas City is starting to sell
big in the Midwest. It is "My Happiness" and is by Jon and Sondra
Steel.

The Nielsen
Ratings for radio listenership for the month show the top twenty as
follows -

20 - Mr.
And Mrs.North

19 -
Blondie

18 - Your
Hit Parade

17 - The
FBI In Peace and War

16 - Talent
Scouts

15 - Mister
District Attorney

14 - A Date
With Judy

13 - Sam
Spade

12 - Big
Town

11 - The
Fitch Band Wagon

10 - The
Life Of Riley

9 - Truth
Or Consequences

8 - Fred
Allen

7 - Jack
Benny

6 - Bob
Hope

5 - Red
Skelton

4 - Edgar
Bergen & Charlie McCarthy

3 - Amos
& Andy

2 - Fibber
McGee & Molly

1 - Lux
radio Theater

The
Nielsens for the all important daytime programming also are released
in late January and are: (15) - Ma Perkins (14) - Jack Armstrong (the
All American Boy) (13) - Wendy Warren (12) - Big Sister (11) - True
Story (10) - Portia Faces Life (9) - Lorenzo Jones (8) - Arthur
Godfrey (7) - Our Gal Sunday (6) - Young Widder Brown (5) - Pepper
Young's Family (4) - Stella Dallas (3) - When A Girl Marries (2) -
Mary Noble Backstage Wife (1) - The Right To Happiness. (As you can
see all but (14) and (8) are in the category of "soap operas")

The records
that are making noise and starting to make a move toward the best
sellers list are : "I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover" by Art
Mooney (MGM) and The Uptown Strings (Mercury); "How Lucky You Are" by
The Andrews Sisters (Decca); "Shine" by Frankie Laine (Mercury); and
some best bets for future success are : "My Baby Loves To Be Bop" /
"You Can't Make Money Dreaming" by Johnny Mercer & The King Cole
Trio (Capitol); "Fools Rush In" / ""My Last Romance" - Tony Martin
(Decca); "You Don't Have To Know The Language" / "An Old Sombrero" -
Buddy Clark & Xavier Cugat Orch. (Columbia); "You Don't Have To
Know The Language" / "Appalachicola, Fla." - Bing Crosby & The
Andrews Sisters (Decca); "But None Like You" by Andy Roberts with
Skitch Henderson Orch. (Capitol); "Early In The Morning"/ "On The
Sunny Side Of The Street" by Ella Mae Morse with Dave Cavanaugh
(Capitol); "Slap 'Er Down Again Pa"/ "I'd Give A Million Tomorrows"
by Arthur Godfrey & The Mariners (Columbia); "I Remember" / "Tell
Me Again Mama" by Fran Warren with Claude Thornhill Orch. (Columbia);
"The Secretary's Song" / "I'm My Own Grandpa" by Tony Pastor with The
Clooney Sisters (Columbia); "Beg Your Pardon" / "Melancholy" by The
Dinning Sisters (Capitol); "I'm Gonna Get A Girl" / "That Feathery
Feeling" by Hoagy Carmichael & The Chickadees (Capitol); "Don't
Call It Love" / "Let's Be Sweethearts Again" by Monica Lewis with Guy
Lombardo Orch (Decca).

The new
records that are on the best seller charts for the first time this
month are :

Tommy
Dorsey's radio disc jockey show is to be transcribed and sent to four
continents - the United States, Western Europe, Australia, and South
Africa. . . . .The Columbia record label has its top month in its
history during the month of January. . . . . . .The top retail
selling song is "Ballerina", sheet music seller is "Serenade Of The
Bells", most requested and top tune on coin machines is "Ballerina",
and top sheet music seller in Great Britain is "An Apple Blossom
Wedding".

"How Lucky
You Are" by The Andrews Sisters on Decca, "Gonna Get A Girl" by Tony
Pastor (Columbia) and "In A Little Book Shop" by Vaughn Monroe (RCA)
are all moving up in the best sellers lists. . . . . .Buddy Kaye
wrote and recorded the song "Thoughtless" for MGM Records. The tune
has also been recorded by Vic Damone for Mercury, Doris Day & The
Modernaires for Columbia, Larry Green for RCA, Guy Lombardo for
Decca, Gordon MacRae for Capitol, Curt Massey for Coast, and George
Olsen for Majestic. . . . . ."The Secretary's Song" has been issued
by Tony Pastor for Columbia, The Satisfiers for RCA, Ted Weems for
Mercury, and Yvette for Vitacoustics. . . . . ."Miracle Of The Bells"
has versions out by Tommy Dorsey on RCA, Frank Sinatra on Columbia,
Kate Smith on MGM, and Bob Manning on Click. . . . . . .Eddy Howard
is a huge draw at the Hotel Commodore's Century Room. . . . . The
Damon recording of "My Happiness" by Jon and Sondra Steele is
becoming a huge national seller. . . . . Helen Humes is new as a solo
performer at cafe Society Uptown in New York.

The newest
entries to the best seller lists during the last week of January are
- "Manana" by Peggy Lee (Capitol), "Now Is The Hour" by Bing Crosby
(Decca), "Frank And Johnny" by Guy Lombardo (Decca), "I'm My Own
Grandpa" by Lonzo & Oscar (RCA).

Out on
Decca and hyped by the label are "The Dickey Bird Song" by Larry
Clinton (from the motion picture Three Darling Daughters"), and
"Pianissimo" and "One Raindrop Doesn't Make A Shower" by Bob
Carroll.